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Discern Science International

Automated interview kiosk that screens for deception

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of $4.1M offered across 1 Form D filing

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$4.1M
Last filed
Jul 1, 2026

About

Discern Science International develops automated deception-detection and credibility-assessment technology for high-stakes security screening. Its AVATAR system (Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time) conducts a standardized automated interview and analyzes physiological and nonverbal behavioral signals to flag possible deception, with published accuracy in the 80-85% range depending on context. The underlying technology came out of more than $30 million of government-funded research at the University of Arizona and was licensed to the company through Tech Launch Arizona. The company is based in Tucson, Arizona.

A screening system grounded in two decades of peer-reviewed University of Arizona research into nonverbal communication and credibility assessment, delivered as a deployable automated interview station rather than a human-administered examination.

Funding

  • EquityFiled Jul 1, 2026Form D
    None sold/ $4.1M

Product

AVATAR

Security screening system

An automated interview station that uses an AI virtual agent to question a subject while sensors capture physiological and nonverbal behavioral cues, producing a real-time assessment of the possibility of hidden deception.

  • AI virtual agent conducts a standardized automated interview
  • Analyzes physiological and nonverbal behavioral signals
  • Real-time truth/credibility assessment

Built for

Government security and border agencies, airports, ports of entry, and mass transit operators; also enterprises running insider-threat programs

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